ICE PRINCESS by Ruediger Hanke

A text adventure on SynTax disk 904 (Amiga) & 1158 (PC)

Getting Started (PC/cutback version) by Bev Truter

You start the game at the edge of a frozen lake, where you see the
village children skating. X children then go NW to the willow and
get and wear the skates left behind by the boy. SE-N, talk to the
girl - she skates away across the lake. N-N-NW-N-NW to the Cavern
Entrance.  Take the flyer and read it, and talk to the guardian to
discover why he is so miserable. SE-S-NE to Chapel.  Get the
candle. SW-N-NE to the Woodcutter. Get the axe, chop the pile of
wood and he gives you the key to his cottage. SW-S-E-NE. Unlock
door to cottage, open door, drop the key and go N into the
cottage. There's a rifle, a mirror and a whistle lying on the
table. Get whistle and blow it - it appears to be blocked.

S-SW-W-SE-E-NE to the boy and his toboggan. Climb the chestnut
tree and go west - both you and the ball fall into the Castle
Garden. Get the ball, search bushes, push lever to open the
portcullis. S-NE, and give the ball to the boy. You can now take
the toboggan and use it to toboggan down the hill to the west of
the Chapel. (Sit on toboggan). SW-E-E to the Winter Garden outside
the house. X well - the water is frozen in the well. Enter well,
chop ice and you fall through the ice to darkness. Up to Inside
the House. Look under carpet - you find and get an iron key,
unlock front door, open front door, and you can now enter and exit
the house by more conventional methods.

X cat, X fire, "hold candle in fire" to light it. D to the Cellar.
Search garbage, get rope, X rope, X skates.  Repair skates with
rope and now you can skate on the frozen moat surrounding the
castle. Get jar, U-W-W-W- NE-N to a Clearing. X fawn, S-SW-W-NW-N.
Read the sign outside the house, N. X Healer, X cauldron, ask
healer about potion, tell healer about fawn. He tells you to bring
him 3 objects, and he will give you something in return to help
the fawn. S-S-E-E to the open field where the youngsters are
playing a game of soccer. X the snowdrops (they are covered with

dew), get snowdrop (this is one of the objects requested by the
Healer).

Return to the Castle Garden and enter the moat. Wear the skates
and you will be able to reach the crank without slipping and
falling. NW, turn crank, SE, get out to return to the garden.
Hmmm...now to explore the castle. N-N-U-W to the Gaming Room, and
how do you play the game laid out on the table? You'll have to
register Ice Princess if you want to proceed to the end, but in
the meantime, go E-D-S-E to the Banquet Hall, and X the pictures
hanging here...... So far, if you've tobogganed down the hill, you
should have 50/130 points. I think you can deal with the wolf and
the guardian in the PC cutback version, but this is as far as I
could manage. I believe the Amiga version cuts out near the
woodcutter.




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